U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
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Richard Dyson, 58, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Donnella Bryan.
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John Aaron Gass, a 35-year-old high school history teacher at District of Columbia International School, has been arrested and charged with production of child pornography and enticement of a minor.
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Sherwood Russell, a 35-year-old resident of the District of Columbia with a prior felony conviction, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm that had been modified with a machine gun conversion device.
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Trevon Palmer, 30, has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for his involvement in operating an open-air drug market and committing aggravated assault while armed.
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Jariatu Jalloh, a 39-year-old Maryland resident, has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree fraud and two counts of first-degree theft for her role in defrauding the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program.
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Jennifer May, a 43-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to over 12 months in federal prison for her involvement in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. Government of $1.5 million through Economic Injury...
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Fan Yang and Jing Tian, residents of Indianapolis, have been arrested following an indictment that accuses them of conspiring to commit securities fraud.
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Cevin Andre Belton, a 40-year-old resident of the District of Columbia with a prior felony conviction, has been sentenced to 45 months in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine and illegally possessing a semi-automatic pistol.
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Evan Tangeman, a 22-year-old from Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that used social engineering tactics to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency across the United States.
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Brian J. Cole, Jr., a 30-year-old resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, was arrested and charged for transporting and planting two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) outside the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee...
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Naseer Green, a 19-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 71 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and possession of a machine gun.
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Joly Germine, 34, from Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of supervised release for orchestrating the 2021 hostage taking of 16 American citizens.
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Luis Santos Perez, 34, of Las Vegas, was sentenced to 144 months in prison for distributing child pornography.
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Federal authorities have seized a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment website linked to the Tai Chang scam compound in Burma, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro of the District of Columbia.
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Kevin Hopkins, 39, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for possessing a loaded firearm while on supervised release, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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Anthony Eugene Burns, a 31-year-old Maryland resident with a prior felony conviction, was sentenced on November 24, 2025, to 55 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded Glock 27 pistol with an extended magazine.
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A Superior Court jury in Washington, D.C., has found Julius Worthy, 42, guilty of second-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, and related charges for the killing of Orlando Galloway and the attack on Shaquia Lewis.
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Mark Edwards, 18, of Washington D.C., was sentenced on Friday in Superior Court for his role in a carjacking that took place in May 2025 in Northeast Washington D.C. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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A jury in Washington, D.C., has found Reginald Steele, Jr., 26, guilty of first-degree murder while armed, multiple counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, and other firearm-related charges.
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Khari McKoy, a 29-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, has been sentenced to 74 months in federal prison for possessing hundreds of images depicting the sexual abuse of children.